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Mork & Mindy: Season 4

22 episodes Premiered Oct 8, 1981 Updated Oct 30, 2026

This is a list of episodes from the fourth and final season of Mork and Mindy. The television sitcom aired on ABC from September 14, 1978, to May 27, 1982. The series originated as a spin-off after a highly successful episode of Happy Days titled My Favorite Orkan. The show starred Robin Williams as Mork, a wacky extraterrestrial who comes to Earth from the planet Ork to study its residents and the life of human bein

Previously on Mork & Mindy

Season 4 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Mork is an extraterrestrial from the planet Ork who comes to Earth to study its residents.
  • ⚡ Mork lands outside of Boulder, Colorado, and meets Mindy McConnell after she is abandoned by her date.
  • ⚡ Mork boards with Mindy McConnell, a human woman whose life is permanently altered by his presence.
  • ⚡ The series exists as a television sitcom that began as a spin-off from a successful episode of Happy Days.
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Season overview

This is a list of episodes from the fourth and final season of Mork and Mindy. The television sitcom aired on ABC from September 14, 1978, to May 27, 1982. The series originated as a spin-off after a highly successful episode of Happy Days titled My Favorite Orkan. The show starred Robin Williams as Mork, a wacky extraterrestrial who comes to Earth from the planet Ork to study its residents and the life of human beings. Pam Dawber starred as Mindy McConnell, the human woman Mork boards with, whose life is never the same after his arrival. Mork lands outside of Boulder, Colorado, where he initially finds Mindy abandoned by her date. The series is categorized as a comedy, family, and sci-fi and fantasy show.

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Season 4 Episodes

Episode Guide

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S4·E1 Mytharc

Limited Engagement (1)

Oct 8, 1981 · 30 min

After decorating the apartment with flowers, Mork gets down on his knee and proposes to Mindy. Choosing between logic and her emotions, Mindy tells him that she cannot marry him. M

S4·E2 Core

The Wedding (2)

Oct 15, 1981 · 30 min

Orson forbids Mork to marry Mindy because marriage is outlawed on Ork. Because Mork goes ahead with the wedding anyway, Orson turns him into a dog. After a chat with Orson, Mork an

S4·E3 Core

The Honeymoon (3)

Oct 22, 1981 · 30 min

Mork and Mindy take their honeymoon on Ork, but Mindy becomes a tourist attraction. Things keep going wrong and Mork doesn't understand Earth honeymoon customs. He confesses to Min

S4·E4 Core

Three the Hard Way

Oct 29, 1981 · 30 min

Dr. Exidor determines that Mork is pregnant. Mork gives birth to an egg via his navel. Mindy has trouble accepting that in the egg is their child. The egg grows and hatches a full

S4·E5 Core

Mama Mork, Papa Mindy

Nov 5, 1981 · 30 min

Mearth learns to walk and talk, but calls Mindy 'shoe'. Mindy starts avoiding Mearth until Mork gives her an opportunity to bond with her son.

S4·E6 Core

My Dad Can't Beat Up Anybody

Nov 12, 1981 · 30 min

Mork becomes insecure when he thinks he doesn't have Mearth's respect. Mearth finds Mork's spacesuit and Mork wears it as a superhero costume. Mork and Mearth go to a bar, looking

S4·E7 Core

Long Before We Met...

Nov 19, 1981 · 30 min

Mork accompanies Mindy to her high school reunion and gets upset when Mindy associates with an old boyfirend. Mork then attempts to go back in time to the prom and do away with th

S4·E8 Core

Rich Mork, Poor Mork

Nov 26, 1981 · 30 min

Mork turns to Exidor for money advice, and invests all the family's money in Exidor's boutique.

S4·E9 Core

Alienation

Dec 3, 1981 · 30 min

Mork and Mindy tell Mearth he's an alien. Mearth gets upset and runs away. He's captured by a cult of Utopians and Mork and Mindy pretend to be part of the cult to rescue him.

S4·E10 Core

P.S. 2001

Dec 17, 1981 · 30 min

Mearth wants to go to school and gets sent to school on Ork. Mearth comes home crying because the other kids made fun of him and he hates the teacher. Mork and Mindy take Mearth ba

S4·E11 Core

Pajama Game II

Jan 7, 1982 · 30 min

Mearth is allowed to have some of his Orkan friends over and Zelka ends up spending the night. Mork and Mindy explain the facts of life to Mearth when they assume something happene

S4·E12 Core

Present Tense

Jan 14, 1982 · 30 min

Mearth goes on a trip with Fred so Mork and Mindy have a week to spend alone together. They find that without Mearth at home, they have nothing to talk about. They have a fight. S

S4·E13 Core

Metamorphosis- the TV Show

Jan 21, 1982 · 30 min

Mr. Sternhagen, the station manager where Mindy works, gets fired. KTNS's new boss is very young and ready to fire people. He holds a party to meet all the employees' families. A s

S4·E14 Core

Drive, She Said

Feb 4, 1982 · 30 min

Mindy is tired of coming from work and then having to go out on errands in the evening. Mork goes to a driving school where TNT is his instructor. When Mork takes his driving test,

S4·E15 Core

I Don't Remember Mama

Feb 11, 1982 · 30 min

Mork has been making boring reports to Orson, so Orson erases all of Mork's memories of his family. Mindy and Mearth do everything they can to get Mork to remember them. Mindy fina

S4·E16 Core

Mork, Mindy and Mearth Meet MILT

Feb 18, 1982 · 30 min

Mork uses Orkan components to assemble a home computer named M.I.L.T. MILT is so sophisticated and tyrannical that it decides to hold its creator, Mindy, and Mearth, as hostages.

S4·E17 Core

Midas Mork

Apr 15, 1982 · 30 min

After hearing about how Rumplestilskin spun straw into gold, Mork and Mearth try to make polyester into gold. Mindy dreams that they become millionaires and live in a mansion with

S4·E18 Core

Cheerleaders in Chains

Apr 22, 1982 · 30 min

Mindy gets jailed when she won't reveal a source for one of her stories. Mork tries to go through political channels to get her out. Then he tries to spring her out, but gets arres

S4·E19 Core

Gotta Run (1)

May 6, 1982 · 30 min

Mork and Mindy are overjoyed when they meet Kalnik, an alien from Neptune who has also married an Earthling. Things go awry when they become suspicious of Kalnik's true intentions.

S4·E20 Core

Gotta Run (2)

May 13, 1982 · 30 min

After the evil Kalnik has bombed their apartment, leaving them on the run, Mork, Mindy, and Mearth decide their only chance of surviving is to go public about Mork's real roots.

S4·E21 Mytharc

Gotta Run (3)

May 20, 1982 · 30 min

Kalnik discovers Mork, Mindy, and Mearth in their demolished apartment. Mork clicks the heels of his magic shoes in an effort to escape with Mindy to Rome. But the shoes have be

S4·E22 Mytharc

The Mork Report

May 27, 1982 · 30 min

Mork bucks hard for a promotion from leader Orson on planet Ork, and unintentionally comes up with a report on how to stay happily married on Earth.

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